Action Quote by Sherwood Boehlert

We're now moving into a stage where the green economy isn't just going to be the place for people to spend money. It's going…

— Van Jones

“The typical undergraduate microeconomics textbook describes cases where markets are unlikely to produce efficient outcomes. These textbooks often claim that, in principle, government intervention…

— Jason Brennan

Nothing rectifies out-of-control market failures like a healthy dose of government intervention and mountains of bureaucracy.

— George Carlin

What we need to understand is, one, that there are market failures; and two, that there are things like asset bubbles and irrational exuberance.…

— Nouriel Roubini

Piracy often reflects market failures on the part of producers rather than moral failures on the part of consumers.

— Henry Jenkins

I do tend to think that things that have incredibly long time horizons often do involve market failures.

— Peter Thiel

Business schools are failing to teach the students about the risks of market failures. We need to include some material on market failures in…

— Pankaj Ghemawat

Many politicians and pundits claim that the credit crunch and high mortgage foreclosure rate is an example of market failure and want government to…

— Walter E. Williams

Democracy is talking itself to death. The people do not know what they want; they do not know what is the best for them.…

— Benito Mussolini

Putting it in plain terms, the general public must be reduced to its traditional apathy and obedience, and driven from the arena of political…

— Noam Chomsky

It is important to remember that government interference always means either violent action or the threat of such action. Government is in the last…

— Ludwig von Mises

There is likely to be a lag between the need for action and government ["an individual's" or "a team's"] recognition of the need; a…

— Milton Friedman

It was an interesting question as to whether the BBC had a future in the digital world, and what form of market failure could…

— Gavyn Davies

Our main aim globally is to connect more women to the economy because we know there is a specific market failure there: women are…

— Arancha Gonzalez

Climate change represents the greatest and widest-ranging market failure ever seen

— Nicholas Stern